Answering machines Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

“The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place”

— Lawrence Durrell

“. . .they were assisted by the new technological invention of the telephone (that enemy of reflection, which became increasingly accepted as as means of communication) . . .”

— Paul Gordon Lauren

“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.”

— Graham Greene

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

— David Hockney

When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had the right…

— Shashi Tharoor

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!

— C. S. Lewis

“That telephones can connect us in seconds to any creature on earth foolhardy enough to lift its own chunk of plastic is wonderful. But…

— David James Duncan

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts…

— Ralf Hutter

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

— Peter Diamandis

We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution,

— Jeff Pulver

“unhooked telephone”: the”

— Otto F. Kernberg

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

— Ithiel de Sola Pool